Is Red Hat on the shopping list for Google? Could be. But the cost would not be cheap with Red Hat’s stock having nearly doubled in price over the past year. A takeover would likely cost more than $30 billion and spark a bidding war. At that price a deal would rank among the most expensive ever in tech.

Technology to defeat hackers, counterfeiters and ocean pollution as well as improved artificial intelligence and the advent of quantum computing are coming. So says IBM. Here’s a look at each, including video overviews.

NCSU researchers pinpoint new compounds that may be effective in containing the virulence – or ability to produce disease – of Listeria, a well-known bacterium that can cause severe food poisoning and even death.

The data scientist who gathered information on millions of Americans for Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm that worked for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, says he would be happy to testify before Congress and speak to the FBI about the work he did for the company.

Lawmakers in the United States and Britain demanded Sunday that Facebook explain how a political data firm with links to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was able to harvest private data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the social network alerting those whose information was taken.

Ten panel discussions at South by Southwest addressed topics like faith in film and the possibility of life on other planets, exploring how religion intersects with technology and culture. So why talk faith at SXSW? Here’s a look.